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Developing Statewide Capacity to Lead Formative Assessment
Challenge Following a statewide analysis of assessment practices in 2014, the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) identified that the definition and practices related to formative...
Science is Coming to the California Dashboard
This essential guide for California assists educators in preparing for the integration of science performance data into the California School Dashboard. Starting with the 2025...
From Conversation to Action: Developing and Implementing School Accountability Principles
On December 11, 2024, WestEd school accountability experts Eric Crane, Mitch Herz, and Corey Cornett are hosting a "how-to" workshop that explores concrete actions for...
Focusing the Conversation: Developing and Using Guiding Principles to Strengthen School Accountability Systems
School accountability systems can be used to identify shared goals for student outcomes and provide a vocabulary to facilitate conversations about school improvement. Identifying clear...
Educational Alignment: Past, Present, and Potential Future (Part 1)
To ensure that accurate inferences of student learning are made, the alignment of learning standards, instruction, and assessments is critical. Educational systems benefit from alignment...
Demystifying Statewide Standardized Assessments: Ensuring That Assessments Accurately Measure Academic Standards
Test developers collect validity evidence to provide support for the interpretations and uses of the test scores. Validity evidence comes from multiple sources including what’s...
Demystifying Statewide Standardized Assessments: Reporting Assessment Scores
Assessments report multiple types of scores that have different meanings and offercomplementary information. For statewide assessments used for accountability, states must provide accessible score reports...
Council of Chief State School Officers Common Core State Standards: Communications Toolkit
A clear structure for communicating the ongoing benefit of the Common Core is an essential strategy for implementation. This toolkit provides a structure and suggestions...
Ethnic Studies Legislation: State Scan
Reviewing state efforts to develop and implement curricula that reflects and affirms students' racial and ethnic identities, Sylvia Kwon from the Region 15 Comprehensive Center...
Digital Professional Learning for K–12 Teachers: Literature Review and Analysis
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers' work has had to shift to online spaces, requiring learning to be adapted to different mediums. Changes in...